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The general process for software $($or a program$)$ to be created and run is:

A programmer writes in a programming language $($like Java, C$,$ Python, etc.$).$ This is fairly easy for humans to understand, but not understandable$/$usable by the computer, so it needs to be converted to which is readable$/$usable by the computer. To do this conversion, a is needed, which takes what the programmer has written and changes it to what the computer can read. At this point, we have a$($n$),$ which is the set of instructions that the computer will carry out; note, that at this point, it is not in memory $($i$.$e$.,$ RAM$),$ it is simply sitting in permanent storage waiting to be run. When a user decides to run it$,$ then a copy of it is moved into memory $($i$.$e$.,$ RAM$)$ and becomes a$($n$)$ which waits to be sent to the CPU $($central processing unit$)$ to have its instructions carried out.